Working together
We build GUIDE — studies, sketches, and private registries — and studio services for teams that run on real constraints—grant cycles, security reviews, stage-appropriate risk. Every agreement starts with a conversation about how you actually work, and ends with terms that fit.
Research teams
Departments, core facilities, and research groups need tools that serve both teaching and discovery—with terms their institution can actually sign. We design agreements around how universities buy: grant-funded timelines, site-wide access, and renewals that don’t restart from scratch.
GUIDE for academia
GUIDE is in active development and will scale by seats, storage, and registry posture (personal, lab, or department). Studies and sketches live in your private registry; the Commons stays open to anyone. Early collaborators shape the product.
Studio services
Custom builds, brand work, and prototypes ship as milestone-driven engagements with documentation your team can carry forward. We handle the procurement path so the paperwork matches the relationship.
Pricing reflects seats, scope, and support—with the volume structures your institution expects. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so early.
Companies
Startups need room to pilot; enterprises need terms that survive security review. We write agreements for your stage—lean enough to start quickly, structured enough to scale to production.
GUIDE for business
Commercial GUIDE licenses will track team size, private registry / installation model (cloud, on-prem, or hybrid), and the integrations and SLAs you depend on. We write for procurement once—renewal is a checkpoint, not a reinvention. Pilot terms available now.
Studio services
Custom software, identity work, and prototypes ship against milestones tied to outcomes you can measure. Whether you’re proving value in a pilot or running something your business leans on, the contract matches the stakes.
We take a limited number of engagements so each one gets real attention. If another firm would serve you better, we’ll tell you.
How we show up
Every engagement takes one of three shapes—the same vocabulary whether you’re on campus or in a company.
Project-based
A bounded arc with a clear finish line: milestones, a shared definition of done, and handoff you can run without us. Pilots, builds, migrations, launches.
Fractional
Part-time leadership with a steady rhythm—ownership of direction without a full-time seat. When the gap is between lab, product, and IT, fractional keeps the through-line honest.
Advisory
Sharp judgment on demand: focused sessions, reviews, and office hours. Boards, diligence, vendor selection, architecture—we’re in the room for the decision, not running your operating rhythm.
See how these play out in practice: stories from real engagements.